Character List

Character List:
Dr. Manette

• Lucie's father
• Spent 18 years in the Bastille
  • Reason for imprisonment was unknown for most of the novel
• Went crazy and started making shoes
  • Recalled to Life by Lucie
• Sometimes relapses into his shoemaking after traumatic moments
• Found in Defarge's wineshop attic
• Relapses after finding out Darnay's true name
  • Darnay's family were the ones who put him in jail
• Undergoes transformation from feeble insane man to a strong confident character during the time of Darnay's imprisonment

Lucie

• Contrasted with Madame Defarge
• Dr. Manettes daughter
• Light
• Represents goodness
• Her presence and love recalls both Dr. Manette and Carton to life
• Marries Charles Darnay
  • Little Lucie
• "Golden thread" that holds her family together
• Madame Defarge is like a shadow that falls over Lucie

Miss Pross

• English
• Extremely fierce and protective over Lucie
• Afraid of water
• Loyal
• Has a brother Solomon
• Calls Lucie her "Ladybird"
• Kills Madame Defarge in order to protect Lucie

Jarvis Lorry

• A man of business, regarding everything except the Manettes
• Works for Tellson's bank
• Found Lucie and brought her back to her father
• Honest, trustworthy, loyal
• a good friend to the Manettes
• Destroys Dr. Manette's shoemaking bench with Miss Pross

Ernest Defarge

• French owner of a wineshop in Paris
• Revolutionary leader
  • Wine shop is a meeting place during the revolution
• Used to be a servant for Manette
• Demonstrates kindness, Unlike Madame Defarge
• Uses Manette to show people what the French aristocracy does
• Intelligent

Madame Terese Defarge

• Cruel
• Hates aristocracy
• Knits a hit list for the revolution
• Sees nothing and everything
• calculating
• Wants vengeance
  • Her sister was raped and killed by Darnays father and uncle, and her brother was also killed in his attempt to save her
• Killed by Miss Pross, showing love triumphs over vengeance
• Her hatefulness came not from her but the experiences she went through growing up
• Wants Darnay and his whole family dead
• Contrasted with Lucie

Jaques

• Secret name for revolutionaries

Jerry Cruncher

• Tellson's bank messenger
• Digs up graves at night
• Uneducated
• Abuses his wife
• Thinks she prays against him because of his grave digging
• "recalled to life" makes him very nervous

Young Jerry

• Similar to Jerry Cruncher
• Believes he is chased by a coffin after following his father

Charles Darnay

• French
• Nephew of the malicious Marquis
• Keeps his identity a secret
• Renounces his family name
• Marries Lucie Manette
• Looks like Sydney Carton
• On trial three times
  • Once for being a spy in England for France (Acquitted)
  • Next in France for being an emigre (Released)
  • And finally for the acts of his father and uncle against Madame Defarge's family (Sentenced to death)
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Mr. Stryver

• Believes he is smarter than he is
• Decides to marry Lucie, but Mr. lorry talks him out of it
• Bullies Carton
• Marries some rich lady
• Ambitious, proud

Sydney Carton

• Starts as a lazy alcoholic
  • rude, bitter
  • Does all of Mr. Stryver's work
  • no self confidence
• Dislikes Darnay
  • Reminds him of all of his failures in life
• Transforms throughout the novel into a better person
• Would do anything for Lucie, and anyone she loves
• Dies in place of Darnay
  • His death allows those he cares for to live happily
  • Christ figure

The Marquis

• Arrogant elitist
• Hates the peasant class
• Kills a child but does not care
• Calls the peasants rats
  • Would willingly exterminate any of them
• Does not care about the lower class
  • Won't give a peasant woman a tombstone for her husband
• Caused Darnay's imprisonment in England
• Raped and Killed Madame Defarge's Sister, and also killed her brother
• Killed by Gaspard

Gaspard

• Killed the Marquis in revenge for his son's death

John Barsad/Solomon Pross

• Untrustworthy, mean to Miss Pross
• Spy
• Helps Carton carry out his plan at the end of the novel